How to restore disk to unique partition from terminal?

Hi,
I have had a triple-boot for about a year (Mac Os X Lion, Win7, Ubuntu) but recently something wrong happened.
When trying to boot it as do normally and select the OS that i wanted i got a blinking question mark Folder instead.
I then tried to reinstall Mac Os from which i couldn't even boot (cmd + R)
the " Select the disk where you want to install Mac Os X" box was empty.
I then went to "Diskutility" but couldn't erase, verify or restore the Disk image or Startup Disk that are the only two icons to appear on the left-hand side.
In the "Partition" tab only one partition is visible, that of the Startup Disk "Mac OS Base System".
In Terminal,
diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *1.4 GB     disk0
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         30.7 KB    disk0s1
   2:         Apple_Driver_ATAPI                         2.0 KB     disk0s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS Mac OS X Base System    1.4 GB     disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk1
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk2
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk3
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk4
/dev/disk5
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk5
/dev/disk6
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *6.3 MB     disk6
/dev/disk7
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *2.1 MB     disk7
/dev/disk8
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *1.0 MB     disk8
/dev/disk9
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk9
/dev/disk10
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk10
/dev/disk11
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                            untitled               *1.0 MB     disk11
How can i restore my disk to a single OS X partition in terminal as diskutility won't let me do anything and wiping out the whole drive seems to be my only option to finally use my laptop? I have tried with no luck
Thank you

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